Let's start with a definition of pop culture.....

I wanted to write my own blog on pop culture mainly because I read so many other people's blogs on pop culture and it's getting hard to just voice my opinion in their 'comments' section.

I want to make sure I stay true to form, so I asked GOOGLE (Jeeves can have soooo many ads) "What is popular culture?"

First answer: The opposite of high cultural art forms, such as the opera, historic art, classical music, traditional theater or literature; popular culture includes many forms of cultural communication including newspapers, television, advertising, comics, pop music, radio, cheap novels, movies, jazz, etc.

Now everyone knows most novels aren't cheap. (Well unless you're reading those Harlequin romance novels...my grandmother loves those). Cheap = 3 dollars. Good luck finding that at the bookstore. You can't even buy a comic book for that cheap anymore (with tax). So I scrap that definition.

I look at the next one on the GOOGLE list:

A shared set of practices and beliefs that have attained global acceptance and which can be normally characterized by: being associated with commercial products; developing from local to national to global acceptance; allowing consumers to have widespread access and are constantly changing and evolving.

Wow. BORING. I didn't even make it through reading that one before I went to the next:

contemporary culture as defined by the objects, images, artifacts, literature, music, and so on of "ordinary" people.

Much better! I'll stick to that one. So you can rely on a woman's perspective on all things 'contemporary' in this blog.

I've been writing blogs on my myspace account but I realized a lot of people were actually reading those entries that actually knew me and that was kind of weird. I prefer to remain anonymous out on the world wide web I think when it comes to my pop culture dealings.

And if you are really bored you can read Wikipedia's definition here which was the fourth on the list.

(I love Wikipedia FYI - someone emailed me about one of my Ebay auctions and asked "What's PVC stand for?" - I type it into Wikipedia, BAM, "polyvinyl chloride.")

So welcome to my blog. Next discussion? Comic books and my perspective on the state of the industry.